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University of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger looked scruffy in a new mugshot after being flown hundreds of miles in preparation for his trial. Kohberger, 29, was flown Sunday to Idaho’s capital, Boise, after being granted a change of venue to take his trial away from Latah County, where he’s accused of brutally stabbing the four students in their rental home in Moscow. Kohberger was seen arriving in Boise on a small plane and was transferred to a Black SUV in an orange jumpsuit and cuffs. A new mugshot taken on his arrival at the Ada County Sheriff’s Office shows...

Environmentalist Juan López, who fought against open-pit mining in Honduras, was shot dead on Saturday night in the northeast of the country, a crime that is being investigated by the police and has been condemned by the authorities. According to local press reports, López, 46, was killed by individuals when he was inside his vehicle after leaving a church in the municipality of Tocoa (in the Department of Colón), where he lived and worked as a city council member. “We condemn the vile murder of our comrade and environmental leader Juan López in Tocoa, Colón. I have ordered that all...

A jury convicted 34-year-old Shawn Laval Smith for the brutal murder of Brianna Kupfer. The UCLA student was killed at a furniture store in Hancock Park two years ago. This horrifying crime should spark outrage over the growing dangers in Democrat-led cities like Los Angeles. Smith was convicted for the Jan. 13, 2022, attack on Kupfer. Jurors confirmed a special circumstance of murder while lying in wait. They also found that he used a knife during the crime.

Skeletal remains discovered by a deer hunter in Wisconsin last weekend have been positively identified as Elijah Vue, a three-year-old who went missing from his mother’s boyfriend’s home in February. The remains — a skull and multiple bones — were found on private property in Two Rivers by “a person getting his land ready for the hunting season,” Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Meinnert said during a press conference Friday. The land was near the Girl Scout Camp Manitou property, and the body parts were found in a heavily wooded area with thick underbrush, Meinnert said. “This location is just...

Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano, who is originally from the Dominican Republic, has been in the Monroe County Jail since Saturday, Sept. 7, according to jail records. Irondequoit Police announced the arrest on Friday morning. Police have been investigating ever since first responders found the bodies of two children and their parents in the basement of a home on Knapp Avenue. Firefighters went to the home on Saturday, Aug. 31 after it caught on fire. Irondequoit Police say Soriano enter Puerto Rico illegally and got a fake New York State ID, which allowed him to travel to mainland United States. Police...

“Why did you put him in a public school? I want to know why. Somebody needs to be held accountable.” An illegal immigrant, who was a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, was allowed to enroll in a Maryland high school while accused of murdering a 20-year-old woman. Walter Martinez was charged and convicted of killing Kayla Hamilton on July 27, 2022. While awaiting trial, he was allowed to attend school, Fox 45 reported. “When I start from the very beginning and get to the very end, they’re like, ‘wow, that is a really crazy story,’” The victim's mother, Tammy...

Bernhard Weiss was the Jewish police chief of Berlin who modernized German law enforcement... He went to law school, and then volunteered for the military and served in World War I, one of only a few Jewish officers in the German army. For his bravery he received the nation’s highest military honor, the Iron Cross First Class. During the years of the Weimar Republic (1918 to 1933) Bernhard led the effort to transform the Berlin police department into an effective and humane “citizens force.” He created the first modern forensics department, using the latest technology in microscopes, polygraphs and hematology....

The assassination attempt has pitted Democrats and Republicans against each other in a way that one historian calls “outright frightening.”BUTLER, Pa. — One of the city’s most famous artists has created a 400-pound sculpture of Donald Trump raising his fist in the air, capturing the moment that split this Pennsylvania community in two. Digital billboards blaming Democrats and the media for the assassination attempt still flash around town. And supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris say they’re routinely heckled.The long-simmering tensions in Butler that erupted after a gunman shot Trump in the ear at a rally have yet to cool...

"The Arabs arrived and started killing people in the streets," says Amina*. "When they entered homes, they took everything and burned the remains." The young mother is reliving the horror of the massacre in Sudan which devastated her community. The attack started shortly after dawn. Residents of Kutum, a town in North Darfur, were either still sleeping or had just finished sunrise prayers, when gunshots shattered the early morning calm. As the onslaught raged for nearly nine hours, armed Arab men descended on the area and killed unarmed civilians before celebrating their brutality.

Boston mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, 89, was murdered by a fellow inmate with ties to the mafia in a West Virginia federal prison shortly after he was transferred there. According to one congressman, Mueller and those serving under him in the FBI aided Bulger in eliminating mob competitors and recently Mueller turned over an alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual assault allegations against him to the FBI. The murder occurred outside of the field of vision of security cameras where Bulger was beaten with a lock in a sock and had his eyes gouged out. The...

Police say Rebecca Cheptegei, who recently competed at Paris Olympics, was doused with petrol and set ablaze on Sunday during dispute with her partner Dickson Ndiema MarangachUgandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, who recently competed in the 10,000-meter race at the Paris Olympics, died in a hospital on Thursday, five days after her partner set fire to her home in western Trans Nzoia County, Kenya. Owen Menach, director of Clinical Services at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, confirmed her death to the media on Thursday morning. Jeremiah Ole Kosiom, Trans Nzoia County police commander, told the media...

A unique insight into the hidden world of modern slavery in the UK, seen through the eyes of people trapped in forced labour and the investigators who are trying to tackle this criminal industry. Transcript link below video.

HOUSTON – Bail has been denied for a suspect accused of killing a 21-year-old student from Nepal who was studying nursing in Houston. Bobby Singh Shah is charged with capital murder. He was supposed to appear in probable cause court Thursday afternoon, but waived his appearance. The magistrate found probable cause in his case and his bail was denied. His next hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. next Tuesday. What happened? On Monday at around 5:45 p.m., the body of 21-year-old Muna Pandey was found lying in her bed with multiple gunshot wounds to her torso, according to court records....

Four people were killed and two others injured in a shooting at a home stemming from a dispute between neighbors on Saturday night in Hawaii, police said. An argument between neighbors led to a bloody shooting that left four dead and two others critically injured this weekend in Hawaii, police said. Witnesses reported that a man was using a front-end loader to ram cars into the home where a family gathering was happening, before the man opened fire at people gathered in the carport, fatally shooting three women at the residence in Wainanae, a community about 30 miles (48 kilometers)...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police used a tanklike vehicle with a battering ram to smash into a Southern California home and arrest the next-door neighbor of a couple living in a nudist community who were reported missing earlier this week, officials said Friday. Officials believe the bodies of Stephanie Menard, 73, and her husband, Daniel, 79, are inside the residence, though they first have to shore up the home to make it safe to search, said Carl Baker, spokesperson for the Redlands Police Department. “We are confident that they are deceased and that they are still here on the property,”...

A Florida man convicted of killing a college freshman and raping the murder victim’s older sister while the siblings camped in a national forest 30 years ago was executed Thursday. Loran Cole, 57, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the 1994 killing of the 18-year-old student. Cole also was serving two life sentences for rape. ...

Maria del Carmen Garcia was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in jail for the killing, which was later reduced to five-and-a-half years on appealA mother was overcome with devastation as she received a jail term for setting her daughter's rapist on fire and burning him to death after his release from prison. Maria del Carmen Garcia couldn't bear the sight of her daughter Veronica's attacker, Antonio Cosme, after he was freed. At the tender age of 13 in 1998, Veronica suffered a brutal rape at knifepoint by Cosme, their neighbour, who was originally given a nine-year sentence. However, during a day...

A jury on Wednesday found a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician charged with murder in the slaying of an investigative journalist who had written critical stories about him guilty. Jurors began deliberating Monday to determine if they agreed with prosecutors' claims that Robert Telles, 47, stabbed veteran investigative journalist Jeff German to death in September 2022, just months after German wrote stories critical of Telles and his workplace conduct, including allegations of an inappropriate romantic relationship with a female coworker. Las Vegas jurors deliberated for about four hours Monday before breaking for the evening. The panel of seven women and...

The former Nevada politician who was accused of fatally stabbing a Las Vegas investigative reporter after a series of critical stories was found guilty of murder Wednesday in a trial that highlighted concerns around press safety. Telles, a 47-year-old former Clark County Public Administrator, had pleaded not guilty to murder with use of a deadly weapon in the September 2022 death of German, a longtime Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter. Prosecutors alleged Telles killed German because he was angry about the reporter’s articles exposing turmoil in his little-known political office and was concerned about another upcoming article. Telles wore a disguise...

The whereabouts of a former Las Vegas Democratic politician around the time a veteran investigative journalist was brutally stabbed to death remains a key question in the ex-official’s murder trial – and a newly unearthed text message shrouds mystery to the defendants alibi as he continues to plead his innocence and contest DNA evidence linking him to the crime. Robert Telles, 47, is on trial for killing journalist Jeff German, who had penned critical stories about the official, and the defendant faced tough questioning during cross-examination on Thursday where the prosecutor presented him with a surprise text message sent from...